Bale tie



BALE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.1. 1921.-

1 416 5 7 Patented May 16, 1922.

Q 7, 125201197 7" fi; zwfid INVENTOR fie $1M a o f ATTORNEY WITNESSES NITED STATES PATENT JOHN F. STAUFFER AND JAMES F. ROWLAND, OlE TUTVTILER, MISSISSIPPI.

BALE TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May in, 1922.

Application filed August 1, 1921. Serial No. 488,957.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN F. STAUFFER and JAMES F. ROWLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at Tutwiler, in the county of Tallahatchie and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bale Ties, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

Our present invention has reference to a buckle for cotton ties.

Our primary object is to produce a simple, inexpensive buckle which may be easily manipulated for securing or releasing the strap or band and which compensates for the expansion made by irregular loading of cotton bales.

Other objects and advantages will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference being had to the drawings which accompany and which form part of this specification.

In the drawings 2- a Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cotton tie buckle in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a central longitudinal .sectional view therethrough.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the buckle and pin separated from each other.

As disclosed by the drawings, our improved buckle is stamped from a fiat sheet of metal and is in the nature of a frame 1. The frame has its sides, from one of its ends and from adjacent its other end extended outwardly and inwardly, providing the center of the buckle with a substantially Y- shaped opening 2. For distinction, one of the ends of the frame is indicated by the numeral 3, and the other by the numeral 4. The end 4 is provided with a transverse slot 5.

A pin 6 is inserted in the Y-shaped opening adjacent to the end 4. This pin has 1ts end headed.

The tie strap or band 8 has one of its ends passed through the Y-shaped opening 2 after being arranged over the end 4 of the frame, and is from thence passed through the slot 5 and is compressed against the body of the tie by a force of impact such as the blow of a hammer. The opposite end of the tie strap or band, after being passed around the bale, which has been pressed in the usual manner and which is preferably still retained in the press, is broiwht through the opening 2 around the pin 6. Fe-

fore the strap or band is thus arranged, a pull is exerted thereon and the same is bent at a point that receives the pin therein. The pin is passed in or through the opening 2, and the expansion of the bale will force the pin into the restricted passage of the Y-shaped opening toward the end 3, and thus effectively hold the strap or band on the buckle.

The end 3 of the buckle has its sides parallel and its end arranged at a right angle to its sides. The straight side portions of the end at their juncture with. the angle portions have, on their under faces, longitudinal grooves 3 which are designed to receive therethrough the heads 6 on the ends of the pin 6. For the sake of convenience, we will refer to the end 3 as the front end of the buckle, and it will be apparent that when the pin is arranged in the slotted body of the buckle and a strain is exerted on the strap, the headed end of the pin will travel through the slots 3' to arrange themselves in the position illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing. Thus it will be noted that the device can be applied to a bale in an easy manner and in a minimum amount of time, and the construction is such as to insure the bale holding its shape under all conditions. The strap or band may be easily released from the bale by merely straightening the end of the said strap or band that is bent or arranged around the pin 6.

Having described claim 1. A cotton tie buckle comprising a fiat plate having a Y-shaped opening therethrough, and a slot inward of the opening adjacent to one of the ends of the plate and the said slot being disposed opposite the wider end of the opening, a tie strap designed to be passed through the Y-shaped opening beneath the plate and through the slot therein and to be arranged around a bale, a headed pin normally received in the Y-shaped opening and designed to be engaged by the opposite end of the strap or band, when the latter is inserted through the Y-shaped opening whereby the pressure of the bale against said band will force the pin toward the restricted passage of the Y- shaped opening and arrange the pin under the plate and the heads thereon in contacting engagement with the edges of the plate.

2. A cotton tie buckle comprising a flat the invention, we

10 the opposite end of the tie strap having a headed pin of a length to be received in the widened portion of the opening in the buckle, and the heads of the said pin designed to travel through the referred to grooves when a pressure is exerted upon the strap or band.

In testlmony whereof We altix our signatures.

JOl-lh l ESTAUFFER. JAMES F. ROWLAND. 

